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Border Crossings
Lisette Peterson has spent the past few years trying to escape from the shadow of her father, a conservative US Senator. The last thing she expects when she travels to Mexico during Spring Break is to be kidnapped by a mercenary intent on using her for political leverage.Michael Rezai has been promised that this will be an easy job, to hold Lisette for a week until her father upholds his end of the bargain and then she’ll be free to go. He has little enough reason for loyalty to his homeland after a betrayal that continues to haunt him five years later.When circumstances rapidly spiral out of control, Michael is left scrambling for a solution and Lisette must decide whether to trust her captor to deliver her safely home. Navigating both an uneasy truce and an uncertain environment, they must travel on an increasingly dangerous path to find sanctuary.
365 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 3, 2021
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December 8, 2021
At first glance, this is an ordinary New Adult story like any other- a story about two young people with a dash of adventure.
Here is what you realize once you read the story: it is a deeply human story.
The story starts out as a fast-paced, gripping tale. Lisette is caught up in the middle of a political storm, a mere pawn in her bureaucratic father's campaign to ruthless power. Her story is a side-effect, a collateral damage orchestrated by people. It brings her to Micheal who is fighting his own way among these storms. They have to flee the borders, crossing over from a raging war to political upheavals and making way among the thousands who are coming to terms with the changing ideas of homeland and borders.
Somewhere along the way on this journey with Lisette and Michael, you realize that you have stopped reading the story as a reader and the world you had been reading about has become too life-like to the world you know.
The story is starkly relevant to the happenings of the world and as is the brilliant thing about the author's writing, it tells of the importance of people trying to be good, despite everything.
The characters, Lisette and Michael and others are stories we have heard of distantly. There's a certain way the author writes them, that pulls us into their world, effortlessly real. You can realize the pain, the honesty, the calm and storm that is being talked about in the story as you recall the painful relations it has to our own world.
It is a book that stays with you long after you have read it. Perhaps quietly, lingering at the back of your mind as a story about people who have lost big parts of themselves in a way, when the world is falling apart and finding something to hold on to and growing stronger for it.
Here is what you realize once you read the story: it is a deeply human story.
The story starts out as a fast-paced, gripping tale. Lisette is caught up in the middle of a political storm, a mere pawn in her bureaucratic father's campaign to ruthless power. Her story is a side-effect, a collateral damage orchestrated by people. It brings her to Micheal who is fighting his own way among these storms. They have to flee the borders, crossing over from a raging war to political upheavals and making way among the thousands who are coming to terms with the changing ideas of homeland and borders.
Somewhere along the way on this journey with Lisette and Michael, you realize that you have stopped reading the story as a reader and the world you had been reading about has become too life-like to the world you know.
The story is starkly relevant to the happenings of the world and as is the brilliant thing about the author's writing, it tells of the importance of people trying to be good, despite everything.
The characters, Lisette and Michael and others are stories we have heard of distantly. There's a certain way the author writes them, that pulls us into their world, effortlessly real. You can realize the pain, the honesty, the calm and storm that is being talked about in the story as you recall the painful relations it has to our own world.
It is a book that stays with you long after you have read it. Perhaps quietly, lingering at the back of your mind as a story about people who have lost big parts of themselves in a way, when the world is falling apart and finding something to hold on to and growing stronger for it.
October 12, 2022
I loooove it!! It’s an engaging read from start to finish. Once you start you can’t stop. I personally lost sleep from wanting to find out what happens next. Lol! I can’t wait for the sequel for the possible final confrontation Michael and Lisette will have with their enemies. The slow-burn romance is the icing on the cake. Sweet and just right.
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